Ideas for 10Yo Girls Party

i only had boys, so maybe girls are different, but i don't remember mine ever NOT having something in mind for their own parties.
what does she want?
khairete
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We have done Glow Bowling parties. We tell the kids to wear white and we give them glow bracelets and necklaces to wear.

Popular parties around here are bowling, mini-golf, go-carts, trampoline park, swimming pool, museum, movie theatre, mani/pedi, slumber party, sleigh ride/wagon ride...

A couple of the best parties I ever attended were horse back riding and when my friends dad took us up in his plane.

A limo for 10 year olds? Do you plan to charter a helicopter for prom? For a 10 year old, a sleepover with a DVD movie! Have pizza or whatever your daughter's favorite junk food is and popcorn.

You changed your question I see.... Originally you were asking about a limo party.

Hopefully, you realize that 10 is too young for a limo party. We did a couple of limo parties but the girls were 13 and up.

Ask your child what SHE wants to do and plan from that standpoint.

I'd ask her what her friends are doing...when our son hit the double digits, most things mom suggested were kind of lame, cause mom suggested them!

What does SHE want? I always planned my kids' parties around what they wanted to do and what they were into at the time.
Not knowing your daughter at all it''s pretty hard to answer.

No matter how "mature" you think your daughter is, for many/most 9-year-old girls a "limo ride to the big city" is really not age-appropriate. (How many parent chaperones were you planning on having?)

Save the limo idea for her "sweet 16", or prom, or her wedding!!

For a 10th birthday, stick with a close-to-home activity for the group. Beauty day with manicures and pizza? Sleepover with a movie? Something like that.

ETA: You deleted the limo idea. I'm not sure exactly what you are thinking of in terms of a "glow in the dark party", but using glow stuff at a sleepover would be fun. One idea - each girl can decorate a long teeshirt with glow puffy paint and use it as a sleepshirt (great for photos!).

I'm having such a hard time following this, because a) it looks like you edited your question to delete something about limousines and maybe more, rather than just add on, and b) you somehow answered your question, putting info in it as if you are a new responder rather than editing the question or putting it in the "So What Happened" section. (Not sure how that happens - some have said it's a "glitch" from Mamapedia rather than a user error. In any case, not everyone is going to see what you wrote there, because they will skim the answers and just go to their own answers.)

So I don't even know what's been suggested, rejected or what!

I would NOT go for the mani-pedi thing, just because so many kids aren't into it at 10 (or ever), and it's a pain if you do it at home. Yes, it's much cheaper but you still have to have other parents there and/or hire a couple of teenagers, and hope that the party guests have clean feet and so on (which many ten year olds don't bother with yet). And you have the worry of too many kids spilling bottles of polish or moving around before their toes are dry. Some people think it just pushes the "beauty" concept too much on kids who are still so young in many ways.

If you want a glow-in-the-dark party, I think you will have no problems looking around your area for mini golf places (there are some indoor places), bowling alleys, indoor gym spaces, and so on. You can buy glow necklaces and so forth at Oriental Trading or a zillion places on line, or at party stores. These are so popular at bar/bat mitzvah parties when kids are 12-13, so I'm sure the ten year olds will enjoy them.

I'd also control the number of guests - I think parties of 20 kids are just ridiculous, hard to supervise, expensive and viewed by many families as little more than a gift-grab on the part of the birthday kid. We had a "year rule" - that is, if you were 4, you could have 4 kids; if you were 8, you could have 8 kids...etc. So aim for 10 kids and keep it manageable. If your daughter has never had a party like this, don't overwhelm her. She can learn to make choices in terms of friends, making sure that she likes them but also that they will enjoy and like each other. Also school her a bit on the etiquette of parties - make everyone feel included, open gifts and thank each person at the time (give her the appropriate comments, like not favoring one gift over another, keeping cards with the gifts they belong to, and so on), and then writing thank you notes afterwards.

By 10, kids have an idea of what they want/enjoy, so resist the urge to orchestrate everything as one would with a party for young kids.

Hope she has fun!

What is she interested in? My daughter has most recently do a rock climbing party and an archery party.

Anyone do a glow in the dark party???

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I've asked her for ideas and she says "I don't know".

Keep it simple. Our daughter had a blast at her 10th birthday and we just invited friends to our house. Played about four or five games, had cake, opened gifts and then free play. All the girls had fun and it didn't require anything extraordinary.

My daughter had a pool party for her 10th. My son had a basketball party for his 10th. And next year my last son will turn 10...I think he is looking towards a pool party. We have birthday's from March - June, and pool parties a re typically in July for us, so we just celebrate late.

Ask her what she wants to do with her friends. We did look at going to a nice resort with 3 or my daughter's friends, but couldn't find a good weekend with the room we wanted. And I am very close with those families, so it would have worked out otherwise.

Other friends have done spa dates, movies/dinner, concerts, etc. Just ask her.

When my girls were 10, they probably would have thought a limo ride would be pretty cool. But it would have worn off very quickly. And there is a chance that the girls' moms would not be too keen on letting their girls go all the way to Chicago for the day. I have to agree that something closer to home would be better. Maybe the local movie theater does parties and you can have all the girls at a movie and then pizza or similar. The theater near me has packages that you pay for up to so many people, see the movie and then have a side room to have a little party with food, cake etc. When my girls were 8, making their own sundaes was a huge hit at a summer splash party we had to end the school year.

Bowling party
Movie party
Chuck e Cheese - I've seen adults do their 30th birthday party there
Lazer tag party
Skating (roller/in-line or ice) party
Rent a bounce house for the back yard - they still love those things into their early teens.

Limo and/or mani/pedi party?
Save it for late teen years - like 17.
10 is too young for that in my opinion and if I had a girl I wouldn't be letting my child go to a party like that.
She's like in about 5th grade (give or take a grade)?
While it's true they are growing up - I see no need to rush the process.
Save some grown up type things for when they are actually a lot closer to being grown up.

This is a kids party - kids will have fun at a party that will keep that in mind.

Day at the salon (manicures), bowling, ice skating, laser tag, trampoline place, sleepover (my child's favorite at age 10), movie and dinner, video game and dinner place, arts and crafts place (like paint your own pottery or paper source), indoor water park, camping trip. I don't know what a glow in the dark party is but that sounds fun...combine glow in the dark with a sleepover!

How many friends are you inviting?

I like the idea of mani/pedi. To save money you can do it at home. My daughter at age 5 was invited to a salon for a manicure party. I think it was a total of 4 girls. So more $ per guest, but not too many guests.

You can go to youtube for glow in the dark parties. Many are about beer pong, but you can get decor idea. There is a cool one set up in a garage with painted sheets. The cost depends on the amount and quality of your supplies you buy. Many roller skating places have glow in the dark events. You can go to a roller skating place.

I would love to go to the city in a limo, but I agree with others, to hold you horses and save that idea for an older age. Does your 10 year old still like american girl, or is she not into that?

Tea and cucumber sandwich luncheon.